saving every life possible from the Holocaust

From Marvin Olasky in World...

[Tovah] Feldshuh plays...a young Polish woman who sees Jews in her town massacred by machine gun and vows that she'll try to save every life she can from then on. Working as a housekeeper to a German commandant, she hides 12 Jews for years in the cellar of his home...it's [a true story] as attested to by those she saved. A memorial to the young woman now stands in Jerusalem next to that of Oskar Schindler of Schindler's List fame.

And saving every life means saving every life. When one of the women Irena is hiding becomes pregnant, the hiders vote that she should have an abortion and that Irena should smuggle to them drugs for the killing. Irena says no—every life should be saved....Irena finally gives in but by then her preaching has changed hearts: No abortion. The baby lives.

This play reportedly is on its way to becoming a movie, and with a bigger canvas it may reach its ultimate dramatic potential: Irena's Vow on stage sometimes has too much telling and not enough showing...